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Letters: Increase college grads, increase prosperity

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Perhaps you should spend a little time investigating why the cost of college is rising at double anything else? I can tell you why.. as a fish grows to the size of its aquarium, so a school will increase tuition to consume all... More ›

Perhaps you should spend a little time investigating why the cost of college is rising at double anything else? I can tell you why.. as a fish grows to the size of its aquarium, so a school will increase tuition to consume all available cash.
It began back during the .COM boom when companies started offering unlimited tuition assistance and then the Govt stepped in with mountains of PELL grands and student loans.
The schools will not reign in costs until you turn off the spiggot or make it clear that you will turn off the spiggot unless they do. I'm not a big fan of government regulation, but since these public universities are extensions of the government anyway I think it should be ok to spank your own children.
The bill you passed only delays when the shoe will drop for college students. I encourage you to read a book entitled "The Unincorporated Man" and get a glimse of our debt-slave generation's future. Their parents spend stupidly but at least that debt can be discharged in bankruptcy, our children are selling their souls to the government and I guarantee that the government will one day use it to control them. With the skyrocketing cost of education that is totally outstripping a parent's ability to invest, eventually every student will be beholden to the government and eventually the government will own a "stock" in everyone in America. Personally, I think that is the master plan.

Hank no one is knocking a college education. Those who are really interested and qualified for higher education should be able to get it. The fact is some high school graduates should not go to college just to make the statistics... More ›

Hank no one is knocking a college education. Those who are really interested and qualified for higher education should be able to get it. The fact is some high school graduates should not go to college just to make the statistics look better. More emphasis should be placed on technical trainning for those graduates. Just how many successful plumbers, carpenters and other trades people have a college degree? For that matter how many successful business owners are not college grads? Many are. Those whose aptitude is not for higher education are looked down on as lacking when that is not the case. Jobs providing living wages should be the goal, not packing institutions of higher learning with bodies. Not having a college degree has become a stigma in our society. This robs us encouraging those who are brilliant but have no desire for higher education. And Hank, just where are the jobs for newly graduating college students? Where are jobs for anyone under the current administration? The headlines trumpet the fact that last month unemployment numbers are down by 35,000 while almost ignoring the fact that 350,000 joined the unemployed ranks. Why don't you concentrate on that?